Sovkino Movies

In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries,...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian...

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...

Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.

Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès,...

Director of a Soviet-era enterprises, Baturin, spends days and nights in his private office. Inability to arrange work day and overwork caused...

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his...

This Russian documentary offered tantalizing glimpses of Afghanistan, which in 1929 was still one of the few heavily-populated areas in the world...

A boy is sitting at a table, writing a letter for Boris Prutkov. The cartoon follows the journey of this letter from Rostov to Leningrad, where its...

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the...

A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The...

A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest...

The tragic story of a young woman named Yulia, who fell in love with a married man and lost her only child.

In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment. The remnants of the defeated detachment...

When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World...

Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the...

The series consists of a total of 48 episodes. It is characterized by a blend of genres, with an ironic approach to both western and detective...

Depicts life in the Solovki prison camp as a vacation at a holiday resort, pointing at the authorities’ efforts to humanise the re-education of...

A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some...